NARCOS season 3 charts the fall of the Cali Cartel, who were almost single-handedly brought down by their own head of security, Jorge Salcedo.

The new season of the Netflix drama picks up after the death of Pablo Escobar, with the focus moving to his successors: the Cali Cartel.

The Calis filled the vacuum left by Escobar in Colombia’s drug trade, controlling over 90 per cent of the world’s cocaine market.

Narcos season three opens as the four Cali godfathers announce their plans to cease operations, having struck a deal with officials that involves minimal jail time, and means that they can keep their billion-dollar fortune.

“I got a call from Miguel, and he said, ‘You have to be get me out of this building,’ because all of a sudden it was surrounded by police.

“So I got into the meeting, and I was able to tell him what was happening [with the police], so I was able to earn his trust. That’s where the scene of suffocation comes from — it could have happened if I didn’t have that news. If that call didn’t happen, I most likely wouldn’t be alive.”

At the end of Narcos season three, Jorge kills a hit-man in self-defence as the DEA take down the cartel.

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“I was hiding in my apartment with my family, protected like a bunker, loaded with guns and grenades to be able to reject any surprise taking of the apartment,” he said.

“It doesn’t make sense that I’m going to go kill a killer. I’ve never killed anybody!”

After the cartel kingpins were put behind bars, Jorge was placed in witness protection.

Both he and his wife, a lawyer, were forced to start from scratch when they realised that their respective qualifications were under their old names.

Fortunately, the resourceful engineer started his own company to support his family.

When asked if he is worried that Narcos might revive people’s interest in his whereabouts, Jorge, now in his late 60s, said: “No, no. In the whole truth, I’m not proud of what I did in general, but I’m proud of what I did in capturing Miguel and bringing down the cartel.

“And not just the cartel, but the entire corrupt government and the system. But that’s the thing in intelligence, sometimes when you do something good, don’t tell anybody.”